Kill Bill Vol. 2 with forced subs

[chipzoller]

Has anyone tried to encode this with the forced subs? I specify to display forced subs in the .idx and load the .ifo to burn them in permanently but I don't get them. I look at the .sub file and the subtitles that should be displayed as forced don't show that status.

Am I just being careless and overlooking something?

thanks,


Chip

[LigH]

Not that I knew the mentioned DVD, but: There are 2 possible kinds of subtitles only for special scenes.

a) Several as "forced" tagged subtitles between hundreds or thousands of normal ones;

b) An own stream of only these "scene subtitles", not tagged as "forced".

If your case is b), then find that second stream, and do not select "forced only".

[chipzoller]

Yes, you are exactly right. I had not considered that but now that I looked at all the streams (which I should have in the first place) I do see those that should be displayed.

Thank you very much!


Chip

[chipzoller]

Sorry to repost but it's been a while since I've done this so I need someone to please refresh my memory.

I need to mux in those subtitles with the already created AVI and don't remember seeing a sticky or guide on this. I seem to remember doing this via VirtualDub just putting the video in direct stream copy and somehow add in the subtitles via TextSub??? Can someone refresh me here? I don't remember, is it mandatory that to do this the subs have to be converted to text or can I leave them in native VobSub bitmap format?

thanks again,


Chip

[niamh]

I have bad news for you, you want to burn them in, you need to reencode :)

Using Vobsub() with idx, and Textsub() with srt, ssa and so on :)

for just muxing in avi, use aviMUX GUI.

[chipzoller]

I thought for sure there was a way to mux them via VirtualDub...are you sure there isn't? Something with the textsub dll filter I remember.

And what I don't understand about subMux GUI is that it doesn't support the native VobSub format??? You HAVE to convert them to text first, don't you?

thanks for the reply,


Chip

[niamh]

I'm not familiar with vdub textsub, but I surmise it's the same as avisynth textsub. You still have to re-encode , and yes you need to convert to text based subtitles, but that's easy to do with vobsub or subrip :)

And no avimux GUI doesnt support vobsub format, so yes you have to convert which isn't a big deal.